Cybersecurity

America's weak cybersecurity puts our nation at risk of a modern 9/11

As serious as Kim Jong Un’s threats are to attack Guam, Alaska or Hawaii with nuclear ballistic missiles, it’s likely that any future conflict will begin, and possibly end, with non-kinetic but no less crippling cyber warfare. This kind of warfare encompasses the assault on the electronic “connective tissue” of modern society by interfering with the critical data and electronic signals that control and influence every facet of modern  life.

Americans may understand that cyber threats exist, defining the dangers in terms of loss of credit card information, personal information like addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, bank account information and even private health information. Fifteen million Americans will have their identities stolen this year. And by some estimates, Cybercrime will cost American businesses $8 trillion over the next five years. Appalling? Yes. Life threatening? Maybe not.